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> How does manual reviewing affect whether or not it's vibe coding?

I think the most commonly-accepted definition of "vibe coding" is when you "forget that the (generated) code even exists"[0]. So vibe-ness entirely hinges upon whether you're manually reviewing. If you make/prompt changes based on what you observe in the generated code (rather than only based on runtime behavior), then you're not "vibe coding".

I think the other things you mentioned are orthogonal to vibe-ness.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vibe_coding#Definition

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